| Plant Patent #8,841. Cultivar name: 'MEIpotal'. Before there were the Knock Out® Roses, there was Carefree Delight™. Highly resistant to blackspot, powdery mildew, and rust, this Meidiland Modern Shrub Rose is so long- and heavy blooming, so beautifully clothed in healthy foliage, and so low maintenance that it was given a 1996 All-America Rose Selection award and considered the finest Rose for landscaping of all time. And you know what? We believe it still is among the VERY best for carefree beauty, year in, year out. Setting big clusters of up to 10 buds that burst into single white-eyed blooms of bright pink, this vigorous shrub flowers from late spring through summer and into fall. Even when it's "resting" between bloom cycles, it will toss up a few flowers, so that it's almost impossible to catch it out of bloom anytime except the dead of winter! 4 feet high and 5 feet wide, it's the perfect size for hedges, the foundation, specimen use, or the back of the border. It is a Rose every garden deserves, and one that will earn its name over and over again in your landscape. We strongly recommend this House of Meilland classic. Zones 4-9. |
